The Italo-Venezuelan artist Rodrigo Figueredo, internationally recognized for his libertarian art and militancy in favor of human rights that has been residing in Val D'Agri for 4 years now, took his version of the "Madonna Nera del Sacro Monte di Viggiano" to Vatican and placed it in the hands of Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, third in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.

Despite that Rodrigo only has an indirect relationship to the Lucania, which lies in his blood given the fact that his grandparents were both Italian emigrants from in-between the  two wars that went to Venezuela in South America in search of a better future, he decided to create his work taking into account the traditional regional symbol and culture that is the "Madonna Nera" reinterpreting it in a modern way through the canons and the contemporary avant-garde art form.

The Madonna Nera de Rodrigo was greatly appreciated by the Arsobispo Edgar Peña Parra who did not know the Lucania and the artist tells us that it is "an honor to contribute to make known the region of my past pasts, despite being backward and hostile to change, innovation and difference, in the highest spheres of the world. " That said, it also ends up telling us, not without irony, that "it still hopes that some local public, cultural, administrative as well as religious, appreciate the efforts of a" foreigner "who contributes much more to the locality than what is recognized . "